Freshwater fish that live to 100+
The longest-living marine vertebrates, the Greenland sharks, can survive for many centuries, but until now freshwater fish have not been known to live much beyond the age of 70. Read more...
WIN! WIN! WIN! 2nd chance to win an Otter Watersports 200gm Undersuit worth £185
“Have a Duvet Day even when you dive!” That’s the promise from Otter Watersports to users of the latest addition to its Thermal Range – the “ultra-modern, stylish, extra warm and cosy” Quilted 200gm Undersuit. Read more...
First divers visit Circle of Heroes
The first half of Circle of Heroes, the USA’s first underwater military memorial, has been unveiled off Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast. Read more...
Tragic end to Alaskan research dive
A 28-year-old American scientific diver has died in an underwater incident in Alaska. Read more...
Family on a mission rescue iPhone
A scuba-diving family have recovered an iPhone X in full working order after two days’ immersion in a Derbyshire lake. Read more...
Divers uncover ancient Greek shipwrecks
Five ancient shipwrecks, traces of three more and a 2500-year-old granite anchor pole from a “colossal” vessel have been found by maritime archaeologists diving off the eastern Aegean island of Levitha. Read more...
British scuba diver detained in Oman
A diving instructor who had been returning to the UK from the Philippines to visit sick relatives has been imprisoned in Oman on unspecified charges for several weeks. Read more...
One-stop cenotes diving with Maya Blue
Maya Blue, a PADI 5* diving and freediving centre, has been set up in the small town of Xpu-Ha, between Playa del Carmen and Tulum in Mexico's Yucatan, to help scuba divers at all levels as well as freedivers and snorkellers to explore the "Mayan Underworld". Read more...
UK seas “a service station” for humpbacks
The UK provides migrating humpback whales with a welcome break, according to the findings of a new citizen-science project. It has matched for the first time a humpback spotted in home waters with one photographed in the Arctic – thanks to whale-watchers sharing photos on social media. Read more...
Robot sheds light on basking sharks
An underwater robot has swum into action for the first time in the UK to observe the enigmatic behaviour of basking sharks in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. It has long been suspected that the species might breed there, and the hope is that the REMUS SharkCam might capture such an event on film. Read more...